Section 494 Main and Supporting Roles

Yaya Toure was in midfield and had a no-man's land for twenty metres before his impact was interrupted by Van Bommel. Bayern's midfield interception is really poor enough, and there is no full-time replacement player, which makes Yaya Toure play quite happily. Even after being stopped by Van Bommel, he kicked the ball to Di Maria on the wing and let Di Maria dribble it.

And with the ball at his feet, Di Maria's footsteps were a little too hesitant. Even, Bayern's players quickly returned to defense, and even ran past Di Maria and returned to the backfield, Di Maria still did not accelerate, but moved slowly with the ball on the side.

"Tottenham wasted a good opportunity to break fast, an inexperienced team, still can't do it......"

Simon commented that Di Maria himself didn't notice his waste, he was distracted, and his mind was now full of the breakthrough at Robben's feet just now, and what he was thinking about in his mind was also the way Robben played football, and the way he played himself.

"Look at Arjen Robben well, his way of playing football is the most worthy of your reference."

Before the match, Li Bin and Di Maria said something like this. At that time, Di Maria didn't pay too much attention to these words, but now, the way Robben played the game, which made him really think about it and feel a lot.

Di Maria has never been a particularly cheerful person. Since he was a child, his playing level has never been the best among his peers, because when he was a child, he played football and played defenders, and his noodle-like figure was given a lot of ridicule.

He has never enjoyed the thrill of fame, and at any time, in any team, in his head, there are stars who are more famous than him. Since he was a child, he has become accustomed to it, he does not think it is strange, and he is not surprised that someone is capable of surpassing him, perhaps it can be said that in his career, he has become accustomed to being a supporting role.

It's just that after arriving at Tottenham, Li Bin's attitude towards him is very different from that of his predecessors. In other teams, Di Maria is used to playing supporting roles, especially when there are players in his team who are much better than himself, he will be very conscious and take the initiative to help others. It's the same at Tottenham, he saw Suarez's comprehensive skills, saw Bale's outstanding performance on the wing, and also saw Yaya Toure's thigh-level performance in the team - in his mind, with these people, he is definitely a starting material, the team is Suarez's, Bale's, Yaya Toure's...... Maybe it's someone else's, but you'll just have to do a good job of helping them.

Because of this kind of thinking, he has always obeyed Li Bin's arrangement. Li Bin asked him to play right midfield, and he executed it immediately, even if he used to play left-back for a long time, his best technique was long passing, but in order to make Bale play well, he could sacrifice himself. He can grab the ball, pass the ball, run, break through, and do the hard work in the midfield that does not fit his position, because he is used to playing supporting roles, and these jobs are what supporting roles should do.

However, Li Bin's request for Di Maria has never been a start, which bothers him very much. He's given him a lot of permission, he's given him a lot of freedom, and he's even been encouraging him to play his own style. Li Bin asked him to try to cut inside more, let Suarez cooperate with him more, give him a suitable rotation, and let him have enough stamina and manager for the game. And when making requests, Li Bin also asked him to pass the ball more, participate more in the organization, and bring out all the more whimsical ideas in his head, which are not at all like things to be done by supporting roles.

At those times, Di Maria even felt that if Li Bin only asked himself to play on the wing, work hard to run back and forth, defend more, and fight with the opponent with all his might, maybe he could play more worry-free. But Li Bin asked him to cooperate more and pass the ball better, and he had to try to pass better balls from time to time in the game. And some of these balls are indeed very good, but some of them are simply mistakes that he can't bear to watch.

Why can't you let yourself just play a good supporting role, and it's over? You can run harder, you can grab harder, you can gain weight, you can practice skills, you can do all the hard work, anyway, you are not the protagonist of the team, is it necessary to demand yourself according to the protagonist?

"You can waste your chances, it's okay. What I need is for you to play in a better state, at a better level, not for you to play like a robot who only knows how to go back and forth. ”

Li Bin has said these words to him more than once, Di Maria has always felt that this is not very meaningful, in Tottenham, he is destined to be just a supporting role, a supporting role, why do you have to have the ability of the protagonist?

However, even the biggest opinion, he persevered. He is used to being a supporting role, he is used to obedience, and since the coach said it, then he is obedient. To this day, when watching Robben play, he suddenly understood a lot.

When Robben debuted, his ability was much stronger than Di Maria. In the 04/05 season, he was almost Chelsea's top player. At that time, Robben was in the limelight, and now Di Maria has no comparison. However, during the Chelsea period, Chelsea only needed him to play his strongest ability - that is, to break through, which made his other abilities begin to gradually degenerate, and the impact of injuries exacerbated this process, so that his strength accelerated the degradation, when he arrived at Real Madrid, the ability that had already begun to shrink, because he could not get the support of the players, did not get tactical attention, and quickly began to wither, and at the end of the 08-09 season, he almost never passed, and his ability degraded to a limit.

And now, in Bayern's Robben, the ability is basically only left to cut inside and shoot. When Robben first debuted, he was considered to be a top player in the future and an outstanding star who could play at the highest level, but now Robben has degenerated to the point where he can only play a supporting role and cannot be the protagonist.

Seeing him playing, Di Maria was already scared into a cold sweat unconsciously: if he really insisted on only going back and forth on the road, would he become like him? Will he become a player who only has one inside shot and nothing else? If that's the case, what is he who is not as good as Robben? Could it be that he almost became a copy of Nani?

Di Maria is obedient and willing to play a supporting role, but that doesn't mean he wants to be a man who can only play one type of football. Playing like Robben, on the pitch, it is easy to not even be a supporting role, because the skills are not comprehensive enough, and he has developed into a clown.

Li Bin's painstaking cultivation has been until this time, and it was not until this time that Di Maria figured out the reason: when a person is used to being a supporting role, it is impossible to be the protagonist again. His other abilities will degrade, he will gradually lose his ability to turn the tide as the protagonist, he will get used to playing behind others, and when he needs to pick the beam, he will no longer have enough strength to be able to pick the beam.

Robben took this path: from a player with all-round ability, he gradually degenerated, lost a lot of capital to become the core, and only left an inward cut to hit the goal, and his path developed from the protagonist to a supporting role. And Di Maria took a different path: he developed his own different roles from a single role player, crossing, in-cutting, passing organization, with breakthroughs, three-dimensional dribbling breakthroughs, shooting skills in the penalty area, these things, when he first debuted, Robben's starting point was higher than Di Maria, but now, Robben's ability has withered, but Di Maria's ability has become strong - he has developed from the original supporting role position to what he is now, and now he can become the protagonist, the future him, will definitely be more eye-catching than Robben.

Looking at Robben, Di Maria also knew how lucky she was: even Di Maria herself didn't think it was necessary to be the protagonist, but Li Bin insisted on doing so. Because of Li Bin's persistence, Di Maria did not become a single functional player who only knew how to break through, but became a player so strong that he couldn't even believe it.

A coach who knows himself better than himself – that's the most important factor in Di Maria's growth.

A good coach can improve the level of players: the change in the position of Bale and Coentrão brought the two of them to life, Di Maria is in his eyes, and he has always thought that Li Bin is a good coach for this. But it was not until now that he realized that he was also one of the beneficiaries of Li Bin's coaching philosophy, and his future had already been sublimated because of Li Bin.

With the football under her feet, Di Maria's heart flashed through her own progress and growth over the past year or so. Now he is not a player like Robben who only knows how to make a fresh move, Li Bin's cultivation of him has given him more abilities and can play at this time!

Putting his thoughts back, Di Maria looked up at the front and chose to rush forward with the ball. Although the opponent has already defended, in his opinion, it is nothing.

Van Bommel came, but he didn't stick close enough, and the distance between the two people was two steps, so that Di Maria didn't care about him at all, but just regarded Bad Stuber as his opponent. And Bud's slow speed allowed him to flash with just a smash, Bud chased up on his right, Van Bommel was on his left, and even directly in front, Demichelis, also rushed together. The three-man package is sandwiched, and Bayern also values him.

Di Maria suddenly chose a cross at this time! He was on the right side, surrounded by three players, and he was a left-footed player himself, not good at right-footed long balls. He didn't seem to have any possibility of passing, but at this point, he did.

The back of his left foot rubbed the ball up accurately, and the ball crossed an arc and fell towards the inside of the penalty area!

This is Quaresma's preferred way of playing, and this kind of pass, which is not very accurate, but it is very strange and sudden. This highly concealed pass, not very high, passed towards the box at waist height, which made Bayern's backline have no time to defend and could only watch Suarez rush up in the middle. He stretched out his left foot and unloaded the half-high ball with one kick, and without waiting for the ball to hit the ground, he followed up with a shot with his right foot and kicked the ball towards the far post!

Suarez did a perfect job, he was afraid that there was a problem with the arc of the ball, so he didn't dare to shoot directly, but these two beautiful connection actions made the speed of the ball, compared to a direct shot, not slow at all!

Adler's judgment was wrong, he originally thought that Suarez was going to shoot at the near post, and in a hurry, he hurriedly changed direction, so that he did not catch up with the ball, and the football went into the net in front of him!

“gooooal!!!! Suarez!!!! Suarez scored the goal!! ”

Amid cheers, Suarez rushed to the stands of the visiting fans. Di Maria followed him, wanting to go over and celebrate, but stopped.

's own character is still the character of a supporting character - but what does it matter? Coaches think about what is best for them, right? After all, he knows himself better than himself.